Word: successful
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...could measure and even get a dim picture of the mysteries that have nagged men's minds for centuries. But its trajectory was off; Pioneer missed the moon and headed back to a fiery death in the earth's atmosphere. Still, the unprecedented shot was a historic success, especially because Pioneer's instruments flashed reams of new knowledge of outer space. Britain's top scientists called it "an amazing feat," "a most tremendous achievement." Paris' Roman Catholic daily, La Croix, echoed: "The most prodigious event in history." India's Nehru called it a "tremendous...
...first word came of the shot's success, Project Pioneer's scientists, technicians and observers threw off the guarded reserve that they had built up over months of missile woes, were all but hysterical with joy. When Cape Canaveral's pencil-mustached Major General Donald Yates walked into a press conference, newsmen rose and applauded. In Hawthorne, Calif., at the Data Reduction Center of Ramo-Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories (the Air Force's top moon-probe contractor), Air Force officers and civilians whooped and pounded one another. In the Pentagon, top brass cheerfully poured...
...forced collectivization of Russian agriculture in the 19305-3 program less radical than the establishment of the Chinese communes-was achieved only at the cost of more than 10 million Russian lives. Whether Mao can succeed without resistance on a similar scale in China remains to be seen. The success or failure of Mao's big gamble will obviously influence the audacity or caution of Peking's foreign policy diversions...
...Catholics throughout the world grew from 388,402,610 to 496,512,000 despite attrition in Iron Curtain countries. The church's strengthened spiritual posture was marked by the fact that under Pius 33 saints were canonized,*more than under any other Pope in this century. Its political success can be judged from the fact that, during Pius' reign, Christian Democratic parties and Catholie statesmen (De Gasperi, Adenauer, Schuman, Fanfani et al.) rose to power in Western European countries where only a few years ago anticlericalism was a major prerequisite for political success...
...years, out of $4,000,000 worth of plays, he has had some 20 hits, 30 misses. This fall he is already responsible for two flops: Howie and A Handful of Fire. But balancing them, his Producers' Theater has brought in Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Daarlin' Man, a musical version of O'Casey's Juno...